"John P . Looney" wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:26:44PM +0000, Donncha O Caoimh mentioned:
> > There's a new tutorial on the site. Actually, it's more an introduction,
> > to mod_gzip, It's at http://www.linux.ie/articles/tutorials/mod_gzip.php> >
> > It'll be expanded on tomorrow as I glean some more info from the
> > mod_gzip mail archive.
>> Oooh...netscape supports this already ? Anywhere I could test it ? (Does
> squid have to support it too ?)
>
Netscape and MSIE support it since 1999 or so. Konqueror works too.
Squid doesn't matter, except that it can't do any checking on the
"freshness" of a file since it's compressed. There's an interesting
thread on the mod_gzip list about that very subject..
As I said in the article, MSIE tends to be fairly hit-or-miss. Some of
them obviously don't send the "Content encoding" header :|
Check out http://www.tradesignals.com/ to test it :) Look for the
"quoteboard" link on the right bar. It's a 100k file and compresses to
12k!
Donncha.
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